A Kim Jong-Il production : the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power / Paul Fischer.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Flatiron Books, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: x, 353 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781250054265 (hbk.)
- 1250054265 (hbk.)
- 791.430951/93Â 23
- PN1993.5.K63Â F48 2015
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Independence Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Independence Public Library | Adult Books | 791.43 FISCHER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 36123001571163 |
Includes bibliographical references and filmography (pages 345- 353).
August, 1982 -- Reel one: a sense of destiny. A photograph on the blue house lawn ; Director Shin and Madame Choi ; Shrimp among whales ; A double rainbow over Mount Paekdu ; Kim Jong Il's first loves ; Fathers and sons ; Inside the Pyongyang picture show ; A three-second kiss ; Repulse bay -- Reel two: guests of the dear leader. The hermit kingdom ; Accused ; Musicals, movies, and ideological studies ; Taken ; The others ; Escape from Chestnut Valley ; Shin Sang-Ok died here ; The torture position ; Division 39 ; The hunger strike ; Director Shin is coming -- Intermission: the people's actress Woo in-Hee -- Reel three: produced by Kim Jong-Il. Together ; The tape recorder ; Lights, camera ; Out of the North ; Like a European movie ; The press conference ; Same bed, different dreams ; A full shooting schedule ; The rubber monster -- Vienna ; From Kim to Kim ; The stars and stripes -- 2013.
"A nonfiction thriller packed with tension, passion, and politics, [this book] offers a rare glimpse into a secretive world, illuminating a fascinating chapter of North Korea's history that helps explain how it became the hermetically sealed, intensely stage-managed country it remains today"--Amazon.com.
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